Water-pipe.



Patented May l3, I902.

W. RESCHKE.

WATER PIPE.

A ne-aim filed Aug. 26, 1901.

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mo -4M Wax UNIT D STATES PATENT OFFICE.

\VILHELM RESCHKE, OF GAARDEN, GERMANY, ,ASSIGNOR TO AUGUST VOLLERT, OF GAARDEN, NEAR KIEL, GERMANY.

WATER-PIPE.-

.sETEC-IFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 700,088, dated May 13, 1902.

Application filed August 26, 1901. Serial No. 73,283. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILHELM REsoHKE, a subject of the King of Prussia, Emperor of Germany, residing at Gaarden, near Kiel, Prussia, Germany, have invented certain new and useful-Improvements in \Vater-Pipes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to pipes of the water-pipe form, commonly known as hubblebubble or nargileh pipes, in which the smoke on its passage from the bowl to the mouth of the smoker is drawn through water or other suitable liquid in order to cool it and withdraw therefrom the nicotine and other deleterious elements which are absorbed by such liquid.

The object of myinvention is to provide a pipe so constructed that the smoke will be first passed through water, being admitted to a body thereof below the surface through an outlet-pipe provided with a suitable soundmufliing device, whereby the objectionable gurgling sound common to pipes of this form is prevented, after which such smoke will be passed through a drying-pipe heated by the burning tobacco, rom which pipe it passes to a closed condensing-chamber immersedin and cooled by the body of water through which it has already passed, which condensing-chamber is provided with means for removing the products of condensation therefrom from time to time and from which condensing -chamber the smoke passes to the mouthpiece. Such invention is fully shown and described in the following specification, of which the accompanying drawings form a part,wherein similar letters of reference designate like or equivalent parts wherever found throughout the several views, and in which Figure l is a View of my improved waterpipe in central vertical longitudinal section; and Fig. 2 is a view of the construction shown in Fig. 1 in perspective taken from the side, the interior mechanism being shown in dotted lines and the mouthpiece and mouthpiecepipe being removed.

Referring to the. drawings, the referenceletter A designates a water-bottle, usually of the form shown, which when ready for use is filled with water to the height of the dotted line shown in Fig. 1, and secured upon the open top of this water-bottle A, usually through the intervention of a metallic toppiece, as shown, is a tobacco-bowl B, usually of the form shown, from the bottom of which extends down into the boLtleAa smoke-pipe E, which ends below the water-level line of such bottle in an enlarged portion F, provided with perforated Walls, and is open at the bottom, by which construction the smoke in its passage through the water is broken into numerous small bubbles, whereby it is more thoroughly cleaned and cooled by the water, and at the same time the noise of its passage is reduced to a minimum, and for convenience of description such part F will hereinafter be referred to as the muffler. Passing upward from the metallic top-piece forming the cover of the water-bottle A and in free communication with the air-space above the dotted water-line is a smoke-pipe G, which-extends alongside the pipe-bowl B,

nearly to the top thereof, closely adjacent thereto, at which point it bends at right angles and partially encircling the bowl merges into a return-bend which renters the Water-bottle A through the metallic top and is in free comthe prod ucis of the condensation may be from time to time expelled. Also in free communication with the condensing-chamber H at the top is an outlet smoke-pipe, in communication at its upper end with the pipe-stem D, usually of the flexible form shown, which is provided with any suitable form of mouthpiece C. By this construction it will be seen that upon bottle A being filled with water to the dotted line and the bowl B being filled with tobacco and ignited and suction exerted upon the mouthpiece C the smoke will be drawn from the bowl through the pipe E and will be broken up into fine streams composed of such smoke and the air mingled therewith by'its passage through the perforations 'in the side walls of the muffler F will pass up into the air-space formed above the dotted line or water-level of the bottle A by the top portion of the bottle and the metallic cap.

From such space the smoke passing upwardand then downward through the pipe G will by the heat being transmitted to such pipe G by the tobacco burning in the bowl be dried and that passing from such pipe G to the condenser II, which is kept cool by being immersed in the lower portion of the body of water contained in the bottle, much of the nicotin and other deleterious matter contained in the smoke will be retained in the condensing-chamber H and almost dry smoke be transmitted through the stem D to the mouthpiece C.

'What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a device of the class described, the combination with a pipe-bowl, of a water-reservoir, and means for directing the passage of the smoke from the bowl through the water in the reservoir, and for subjecting the same to the drying action of the tobacco burning in the bowl after its passage through the water in the reservoir, substantially as shown and described.

2. In a device of the class described, the combination with a pipe-bowl, of a Water-bottle, a smoke-conduit in communication at one end with the pipe-bowl and at the other with the water-bottle below the level of the Water therein, and a smoke-conduit in communication at its inlet end with the water-bottle above the water-level thereof, a portion of which conduit is in such proximity to the pipebowl as to be heated by the combustion of the tobacco therein, whereby the smoke is heated and dried after its passage through the water, substantially as shown and described.

3. In a device of the class described, the combination with a pipe-bowl, of a water-reservoir, a smoke conduit leading from the bowl to the reservoir and in communication therewith below the water-level thereof by way of a plurality of orifices, substantiallyas shown and described.

4. In a device of the class described, the combination with a pipe-bowl, of a water-reservoir, a smokeconduit leading from the bowl to the reservoir and in communication therewith below the water-level thereof, and means located at the outlet end of the conduit for breaking up the smoke into a plurality of small streams as it passes from the conduit, substantially as shown and described.

5. In a device of the class described, the combination with a pipe-bowl, of a water-reservoir, a smoke conduit leading from the bowl to the reservoir and in communication therewith below the water-level thereof, and an enlarged portion or mufiler-piece open at the bottom and provided with a perforate wall forming the end of the'smoke-conduit within the water-reservoir, substantially as shown and described.

6. In a device of the class described, the

combination with a pipe-bowl, of a water-res-,.

ervoir, means for directing the passage of the smoke from the pipe-bowl through the Water in the reservoir, means for subjecting the smoke to the heating action of the tobacco burning in the bowl after its passage through the water, a condenser located in the reservoir below the water-line thereof, and means for passing the smoke through the condenser after it has been subjected to the heating action of the pipe-bowl, substantiallyas shown and described.

7. In a device of the class described, the combination with a pipe-bowl, of a water-reservoir, means for directing the passage of the smoke from the pipe-bowl through the water in the reservoir, means for subjecting the smoke to the heating action of the tobacco burning in the bowl after its passage through the water, a condenser located in the reservoir below the water-line thereof, a stop-cock for the condenser, and means for passing the smoke through the condenser after it has been subjected to the heating action of the pipe bowl, substantially as shown and described.

8. A water-pipe composed of the water-reservoir A, the pipe-bowl B, the perforated muffler F in communication with the bowl by a tube E, a tube Gby which the cleaned smoke is conducted around the head B and again through the Water into the condenser H, and pipe-stem D forming a communication between the condenser and the mouthpiece C, substantially as shown and described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two witnesses.

IVILHELM RESCIIKE.

Witnesses:

JULIUS RoPKn, O'r'ro FUNK. 

